Posted on 12/20/2006 2:12:49 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday. The report was issued more than a year after Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removal of the documents.
Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that when Berger was confronted by Archives officials about the missing documents, he said it was possible he threw them in his office trash.
The report said that when Archives employees first suspected that Berger _ who had been President Clinton's national security adviser _ was removing classified documents from the Archives in the fall of they failed to notify any law enforcement agency.
Berger, who pleaded guilty to unlawfully removing and retaining classified documents, was fined $50,000, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and was barred from access to classified material for three years.
The report said that when Berger was reviewing the classified documents in the Archives building a few blocks from the Capitol, employees saw him bending down and fiddling with something white, which could have been paper, around his ankle.
However, Archives employees did not feel at the time there was enough information to confront someone of Berger's stature, the report said.
Brachfeld reported that on one visit, Berger took a break to go outside without an escort.
"In total, during this visit, he removed four documents ... .
"Mr. Berger said he placed the documents under a trailer in an accessible construction area outside Archives 1 (the main Archives building)."
Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.
Berger, with the authorization of former President Clinton, was reviewing National Security Council documents on Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, Sudan, and related presidential correspondence. The review was to facilitate Berger's impending testimony before the House and Senate intelligence committees.
Remember when we used to execute people for this sort of behavior?
... and now we elect them president. Half the country is insane and the other half is too self-absorbed to notice....
(the specs, not the pants or the socks) by Mia T, 8.23.05 |
I know.....Portrait of TRAITORS!!!
What's wrong with, "Hey fat ass, stop right there! " ?
What , did they expect he'd run ?
That sorry POS should have been shot.
Will the DU-ers and democrat partisans show conscience and integrity, and holder Berger accountable? Simple question. Hoping the answer is yes. Democrats' credibility as an honest political organization depends on answers to questions like this. If democrats want to be hounded from the political scene as were communists in the former U.S.S.R., they will ignore calls to demonstrate integrity.
lol
I can't believe that there are not cameras all over that room.
Once again liberals use the same old fail to acknowlege it tactic. They're like children holding their hands over their ears screaming "La la la, I can't hear you".
I've already pointed this stuff out to some liberals. One or two of them may even claim to be outraged but their outrage always seems to fall short of wanting their elected officials to do anything about it.
Re how Burglar avoided jail, we would need to know the relevant statutes and the strength of the government's case vis a vis those statutes. We would also need to know what discretion, if any, the judge had re sentencing under the plea deal and guilty plea. Absent those detailed specifics, we don't have enough info to evaluate the outcome. We want him in jail for a very long stretch, but do the applicable statutes permit such a sentence vis the specifics of this case?
"Mr Garbage man ,Mr Garbageman!! Am I too late? "
"No, Buddy , Hop On!"
Many of us feel the same way you do.
Yes, he should be retried, but that's double indemnity, isn't it?
How he did not get a harsher sentence is beyond, except that the Washington elite protect their own.
Personally, I think his crimes rise to the level of "-gate" status (when you add the suffix "-gate" to a political scandal to highlight its magnitude and to stoke outrage).
mark
And to think that some don't fault Clinton for his reckless disregard for our national security. When asked about Slick's culpability and derelection of duty in the WOT, even Rudy said (paraphrasing), "I don't blame Clinton. He did all that he could do...."
Amazing. That picture says it ALL!!!
You mean like sent to Ft. Marcy Park?
I still don't see why he can't be tried for a DIFFERENT crime--lying to federal investigators? Isn't that a different crime??
I'm surprised they didn't wait until the Friday evening before Christmas to dump this.
It's an insanity that has gotten worse as they grow ever closer to communism, having already eclipsed the socialism borders.
We will probably never know what you said we need to know...
It is amazing to me that the CIA and the State Dept and the Pentagon think nothing of leaking to hurt Pres. Bush...but we will never get leaks that would help us understand all of the corruptness that surrounds the Clintoons.
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